Pakistav vs West Indies, The Third ODI Tied

 Pakistav vs West Indies, The Third ODI Tied

Gros Islet, Saint Lucia: West Indies and Pakistan drew the third one-day international at Beausejour on Friday after the home side recovered to an exciting conclusion over.West Indies scored 14 points last on laminated seamer Wahab Riaz to finish the level with visitors 229 off 50 overs. The five-match series is level at 1-1 with two games to play in the same place on Sunday and Wednesday.

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Pakistan Beat West Indies By 126 Runs In First ODI

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Pakistan Beat West Indies Be 126 Runs In First ODI

Georgetown: All-Rounder Shahid Afridi Returned To International Cricket With A Blistering Half Century And A Career-Best 7-12 As Pakistan Recorded A Thumping 126-Run Victory Over West Indies In The First One-Day International On Sunday.

Afridi Recalled After Missing The Champions Trophy Last Month Due To Poor Form, He Scored 76 Of 55 Balls Pakistan 224-9 Driver. Afridi Then West Indies Skittled For 98-41 Overs To Record The Second Best Bowling Figures Ever In One-Day Internationals After Sri Lanka '8 -19 Chamina Vaas Against Zimbabwe In 2001.
 

Antilles Was Also Lowest Ever ODI Total Against Pakistan.
 

Antilles Had Pakistan On The Mat At 47-5 Before Afridi And Captain Misbah-Ul-Haq (52) Appeared In A Stand Of 120 Runs Against Some Inconsistent Bowling Which Saw The Bowling Team At Home 23 Balls Wide.
 

The Second International Day Of Five Matches Will Be Played At The Same Venue On Tuesday.
 

This Is The Most Difficult Step That I've Ever Played,'' Said Misbah. `` The Ball Was Sewing And Stop, But It Was The Day Of Afridi, The Way He Hit And Rolled.''
 
West Indies Never Looked Threatening Pakistan Total Since The Start Once 7 Feet 1 Inch Fast Bowler Mohammad Irfan Charles Johnson Clean Shot To Launch A Full Floor And Had Darren Congratulations Caught Behind The Legside.
 

Chris Gayle, Who Wanted His 250th ODI Appearance Memorable Took Place In A Little Trouble With Marlon Samuels For A Race Just As The West Indies Fell To 7-3 In Five Scales.

Lendl Simmons And Samuels Snail Focused Afridi Began To Fall Before The 23rd Time.
 

Simmons Afridi Captain Was Perplexed And Dwayne Congratulations Trapped Leg Before Wicket In The Next Episode. He Continued To Claim The Land Of Kieron Pollard, Samuels And Kemar Roach In His Opening Eight Overs Before Returning To Finish The Sleeves, Claiming The Last Two Wickets Of Sunil Narine And Holder.

`` I'm Just Trying To Keep Things Simple, I Am Sometimes Quite Off The Field And If I Can Not Turn To Try To Catch The Right Leg Before The Wicket Decision,'' Said Afridi.
 

Afridi Also Reached 350 Wickets In Odis To Become The Third Pakistani To Achieve The Feat After Wasim Akram (502) And Waqar Younis (416).
 

Earlier, Afridi Pakistan Dominated Record Sixth Wicket Against West Indies 120 Runs 113 Balls With Misbah Holding Tickets With A Quiet 52 121 Bullets.
 
Afridi Hidden In The Bottom Of The 39th That Allowed The West Indies To Respond, But His Players Were Guilty Of Giving Away Too Many Extras That Swelled The Total Pakistan.
 
Holder Erupted Shortly After Dwayne Bravo Won The Toss And Put Pakistan _ Stick Providence Stadium Hosted Its First International Match After Two Years.
 
Ahmed Shehzad (5) And Mohammad Hafeez (1) Clean Bowled While Trying To Leave Holder Inbound Deliveries But Nasir Jamshed (6) Was Unlucky To Be Judged Leg Before Wicket By Umpire Joel Wilson As TV Replays Suggested Ball Missed The Off Stump.

Asad Shafiq Was Caught Brilliantly Behind Makeshift Wicketkeeper Charles Johnson After West Indies Chose To Leave Were Normal `Keeper Dinesh Ramdin For At Least The First Two Games Of The Series In Five Games.
 
Pakistan Stuttered To 23-4, 24-5 And It Could Have, But Missed Again When Referee Wilson Could Not Hear A Distinct Advantage The Departure Of Omar Akmal Holder Would Have Won His Fifth Wicket.

However, The Netherlands Did Not Have To Wait Long As Akmal Has A Hint Of Roach And Was Caught By Dwayne Congratulations Half After Struggling To Score 19 Points.

Afridi, Misbah Pakistan And Restarted Entries, Which Gave The SUV Brand Over The Strike.

The Introduction Of Spinners Samuels And Narine Eased The Pressure On The Batsmen Because Both Spinners Rolled A Dozen Balls Off Them And Have A Distance Of 56 Runs Off Six Overs Each.
 

Afridi Picked Up The 100-Run Stand With A Flat Six Samuels Further Slow Delivery Holes Pollard.
 

 Misbah Raised His Half-Century From 119 Balls In A Single Bound, But Adds Some Valuable Clues On The Lower Side Of Pakistan To Take The Team Surpassed The 200 Runs.

 The Pakistan Captain Was Caught Behind The 48th Over, When A Thick Edge Of Bravo, Who Also Conceded 14 Runs In His Last Number With More Than 10 Asad Ali Hit A Huge Six Over Mid-Stop.

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Cricket-Afridi Steers Pakistan To Big Win Over West Indies

Pakistan All-Rounder Shahid Afridi Produced A Brilliant Performance With Both Bat And Ball To Lead His Team To A Thumping 126-Run Victory Over West Indies In Their First One-Day International On Sunday.

Afridi Blasted 76 Off 55 Balls To Help The Visitors Recover From A Disastrous Start To Reach 224 For Nine From Their 50 Overs.
Then He Took Seven Wickets For Just 12 Runs - The Second-Best Figures Ever Recorded By Any Player In A ODI - As Pakistan Skittled The Home Team For 98 At Providence Stadium In Guyana.

"Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, What A Pitch It Was For Me To Bowl," Afridi Said At The Post-Match Presentation. "I Just Kept It Simple, And It Worked."
Afridi's Incredible All-Round Display Enabled Pakistan To Cruise To An Easy Win After An Awful Start On A Difficult Pitch.

The Visitors Crumbled To 47-5 As Jason Holder (4-13) Ripped Through The Top-Order With Four Wickets In A Devastating Opening Spell.
With Misbah-Ul-Haq Content To Knuckle Down And Play The Anchorman Role, Afridi Unleashed On The West Indian Bowlers, Smashing Six Fours And Five Sixes To Reach His 35th One-Day Half-Century From 35 Deliveries Before Holing Out To Midwicket.
"It Was Not Easy To Survive So I Tried To Stay Positive," Afridi Said.
"Whenever I Got The Ball In My Zone I Went For It. I Knew Misbah Was At The Other End. I Knew He Would Stay Till The End, It Gave Me The Confidence To Go After It."

The West Indian Reply Was Doomed Almost As Soon As It Began When The Home Team Crumbled To Seven For Three Within The First Five Overs, Losing Explosive Opener Chris Gayle To A Run Out.

Afridi Was Only Introduced To The Attack As Pakistan's Sixth Bowler But Proceeded To Mop Up The Last Seven Wickets With His Legspinners In An Inspired Performance.
The Only Player To Get A Better Return In A One Dayer Was Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas, Who Took 8-19 Against Zimbabwe In 2001.

"Credit To Shahid Afridi. I Thought 225 Was Gettable, But Once Again The Batting Crumbled Under Pressure," West Indies Captain Dwayne Bravo Said.
"It Is The Lack Of Confidence. We Have Not Been Scoring Runs. That Plays Its Part. We Really Have To Rally Around Each Other And Back Ourselves And Back Our Ability."

The Second Match In The Five-Game Series Will Be Played On Tuesday, Also In Guyana. (Reporting By Julian Linden; Editing By Greg Stutchbury)

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I Didn't Think I Hit It: Clarke Defends Use Of Review

Clark Defends

I Didn't Think I Hit It

Michael Clarke Defended Try Their Luck In The Examination System Of The Decision, Which Has Acquired Its Own In This Contest Ash Life, And Promoted Ashton Agar In An Attempt To Produce A Miracle At Trent Bridge.

Designed To Correct The Arbitration Slippages, The System Has Become An Influential Player In The Series.
You Have To Walk Michael Clarke Is Given After A Review.

You Have To Walk Michael Clarke Is Given After A Review. Photo: Reuters

Just As Stuart Broad Has The Right To Stand Firm When Umpire Aleem Dar Missed An Obvious Advantage, Players Use The Technology Of The Card As An Appointment Out Of Jail.

The Application Of The System At Trent Bridge Has Also Strengthened The Inconsistencies In The System.

Clarke Participated In A Bizarre Chain Of Events That Led To His Dismissal, Caught Behind Australia Collapsed On The Fourth Night Of The Festival. Wide, Of All People, Made The Call And Clarke Remained Firm. Give Asked His Colleague Kumar Dharmasena If The Catch Was Taken To Matt Prior, Who Was Celebrating With Clenched Fists. The Referee Television Confirmed The Capture Was Made And Dar Raised His Finger And Clarke Called For A Revision Of The Edge.Clarke Said He Was Not Sure If He Beat The Ball.

"Of Course Not. I Thought. Well, I Knew That I Had Hit My Laptop. I Asked My Partner [Steve Smith] At The Other End And Certainly Was Not Convinced That I Gave Good , So I Sent. "

A Small Mark Appeared On Hot Spot And Clarke Went To 23.

"In Fact, When We Look At Both The Big Screen Could Not See Anything, So We Were Pretty Pumped That We Made The Right Decision. Then Gave Me And Took Another Look When I Walked Into The Locker Room And Had A Little Room Where The Hot Spot. This Is How It Goes. Thus The Control System Works.

"I Told Our Team If You Feel You're Not Out And Back To His Judgment. And If The Revision Is Not Going Your Way Through. "

The Challenge Clarke Left Australia Without Critical For The Rest Of The Chase.

He Drew A Line On The Incident Wide.

"We Wanted For Much Less, That's For Sure, But That's How The Game Progresses. Do Not Go Back There. It Is Not Necessary, The Game Of Cricket. There Are Ups And Downs, Good Times, Bad Times. Sometimes You Get Away With It, Sometimes Not. This Is What I've Seen In My Career And That's How It Goes. "

The Captain Also Refused To Use A Series Of Calls To Adverse DRS As An Excuse For The Extreme Position Of Australia In The Game.

Shane Watson Left The Field Cursing Leg Before Departure Was Confirmed By The Referee Despite Hawkeye TV Showing A Fraction Of The Ball Hitting The Stumps.

Chris Rogers Was Dismissed In Similar Circumstances In The First Innings.

On Saturday, England Began A Successful Examination Phillip Hughes Has Cost His Wicket, LBW To Graeme Swann, Because More Than Half Of The Ball Thrown In Line With Leg Stump.

When Asked If The Players Lose Confidence In DRS Rules, Which Give Him The Benefit Of The Doubt To The Referee Instead Of Drums, Clarke Said: "We Have No Excuses This Time I Am Sure DRS Use .. "

Clarke's Dismissal Triggered A Collapse Of 3-3 In 18 Balls And Australia Lurched To 6-174 At Stumps, Below The 137 Victory Target.

Australia Put Their Hopes To Repeat His Fear Shot Hagar The First Round, Moving To No.8.

"We Like To Have A Little More Wickets In Hand. I Wish It Were Not, That's For Sure. But I'm Still Very Confident That The Way Ash [Ashton Agar] Played In The First Innings, If You Can Go Play With The Same Freedom And Confidence, With The Experience Of Other Batsmen Brad Haddin And Yet To Come, I'm Sure You Still Have A Chance To Win This Test Match. "

Australians Expect Their Fear Of Exuberance Mean Another Game Changing Inputs And The Bank In The Lower Order Of Peter Siddle, James Pattinson And Mitchell Starc, Who Scored 99 In India To Rise To The Occasion.

A Rarely Been The Order Of A Teenager In The Early Stages, With The Bat And A Ball. The 19-Year-Old, Turned 35 Overs In The Second Innings And Had Taken Three Wickets If Broad Had Been Delivered.

"I Do Not Think [Hagar] Feels The Pressure. This Is The Kind Of Guy," Said Clarke. "It Is Certainly Not A No.11 On Any Computer In The World. I Pushed To 11 In The First Rounds Only He Could Find His Feet In Test Match Cricket And Play The Game. "

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Ashes 2013- Australia's Chris Rogers Shows Resilience Against England

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Australia's Chris Rogers Shows Resilience Against England

Was A Day For Local Children At Trent Bridge. Although It May Not Be, In Principle, On The Premises Of Local Boy Would Expect. The First Great Joy Belching Beery Came Early In The Process As Manager Of England Pushed Up Past 300 Looks Elegant, With A Spur On The Bridges By Graeme Swann, Who Was Enthusiastically Applauded Window For The Start Of Another Player Nottinghamshire, Stuart Broad (Also Known As The Man Who Shot Cricket).

At This Stage, England Has Given A Boost To The Early Opening Surprisingly Cheap Capricious Mitchell Starc Not Basketball, Not To Mention The Progress Of Ian Bell For Technical And Spectacular Hundred Perfect, There Was A Feeling Complacent About Cricket In Australia, Expansion Of The Air After The Relentless Intensity Friday.

Trent Bridge Was Quietly Agitated Even Before Playing A Horribly Hot Opening Series Saturday. It Was A Chance For Squads Wonder Woman, Brides Beer Belly, Fools And At Least One Melting, Dripping, All Painted Smurf Body Emerges In Its Seething Crowd Around The Tail Of The Beer Tap And Established Under A Sky Emerged To Enjoy The Spectacle Of A Decisive Heartbreaking Mojo In The First Test, With Swann Perfectly Launched To Exploit A Field In His Hometown, The Fourth Day.

Except In The Last Hour And A Half, He Did Not Quite Happen That Way. Instead, It Was Another Boy In The Local Proxy, Ethnic Nottinghamshire Chris Rogers Who Provided A Clean, Safe And Strong Presence Along The Middle Of The Afternoon. Rogers County Colossus Recovered, Is A Type Of Player In The Australian Team Jumble-Sale: The Cricket Equivalent Of A Thin Gravy Boat Chopped Chinese Can Be Found In The Attic, Still Wearing A Flash Of Quality Cobwebbed Ancestral.

It Also Has A Slight Increase In Demand In This City Both Swann And Broad Family Office Lace, After Emigrating To Australia From Nottingham In 1850. It Would Be Something Of An Exaggeration To Call It A Home Thing, But Until Jimmy Anderson Dinked The Ball Straight To Ian Bell At Mid-Wicket In The Afternoon In The 20th Minute, After Driving, Cutting, Nudged And Cut Your Way To A First Down In His 50 Professional Inputs 620a, Rogers Seemed Completely - And Australia Hearteningly - Comfortable.

Such Was The Volume Of Subplots And Sounds Of The Opera On The First Test Series And Own Feverish Rogers To Test Cricket Statement Was A Particular Problem, Discreet. And Yet, Despite Their Inability To Pass This Girl Fifty Years, Despite The End Of The Disintegration Of Australia To 174 For Six At Stumps On Another Day, The Team Of Michael Clarke Refused At First , To Bend. Rogers, At Least, Is Sure To Stay On Top Of The Order Now, And Here You Can See The Greatest Player Of His 19,905 First Class Runs Accumulated In The Colors Of Australia, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northants, Victoria Western Australia Proclaim It.

From Looking For 311 To Win The Opening Partnership Rogers And Shane Watson Extended To Both Sides Of A Room For Almost 84 Tracks Unmolested When England Suddenly Seemed Short Of Penetration Against A Well-Matched Pair Of Beaters Opening A Sort Of Hayden-Langer-Lite - The First Leg Of Bullying And Slasher Rear Foot. In The Process, It Was The First Real Suggestion That In Rogers, Australia Actually Found An Opening 35, Drummer For The Future.

Cracks Cheap Labor, Rogers Is Not More Than Sedentary. And Seven Members Of The Australian Team In Which He Played His First And Last Test Against India In 2008 Were Removed, While Clarke And MS Dhoni On Both Sides Are Still Playing Test Cricket. Yet Old Rogers Is Still Rolling Along, Here Hitting His First Term Of His 17th Ball, A Whip Wide Leg, He Slipped On The Sun-Bleached Trent Bridge Outfield.

At The Other End Watson Began With A Series Of Biffs, Crisp Anderson At The End Almost Sadly, As Is Often The Way Of The Double Portion Of A Man Who Seems Constantly Besieged By The Weight Of His Own Strength, As If Feeling The Need To Apologize For The Size Of His Big Biceps Flexing, Rolling Their Earlobes, Shoulders Slightly Credible.

However, The Provisions Of The Collapse Of Lager Soaked Triumphalism Refused To Get As Trent Bridge Sweltered And Pulled His Neck And Kept Strangely Quiet, Even After The Meal. England Opened The Session In The Afternoon With Swann, While Rogers Defended Skills, Get Your Favorite Score With A Shot Near Anderson, Who Also Took Beyond His Previous Best Test Score ( 15).

It Is Difficult To See How This Twisted And Seasoned Cricket Hobbit Graciously Years. It Is A Natural Athlete, Depending On The Model Of Thin, Coiled Form Crouched In The Crease, His Movements So Completely Those Of A Career Batting Can Not Imagine Doing Anything Else - Eat Breakfast, For Example, Or Touch The Piano - Not To Do So In The Style Of A Left-Handed Starter Gnarled And Grizzled.

Here Defended Against Swann, With The Fingers Of Ballet And Precision Obtained Mainly The Back Foot, Hit The Ball Close To Your Body. A Beautiful, If Not Exactly Elegant, Broke Four New Cutting Around Joe Root Leads To 49 Before Fifty Out Of His 104th Ball A Chanceless Inputs With Eight To Four Net Legs.

And It Was The Highlight Of The Evening Of Australia By The Trent, Which, For Two Hours, There Was A Palpable Sense Of Resistance In A Peaceful Afternoon Disturbed Only By The Fans Singing Yellow Shirt. Rogers Began To Look A Little Nervous When Watson Was Dismissed By Broad IPN, And Eventually Led To The Window Below. Maybe Even Had A Little Show Of Inexperience At This Level That The Film Mid-Stop Limping.

But As Australia Began To Unravel In The Last Hour - The Dismissal Of Clarke, Who Could Not Walk After Edging Behind The Man Who Shot Cricket, A Key Moment - He Was There Maybe A Little Take Comfort In The Strength Of The Higher Order, And In Particular Some Members Of Staff Claim Buck Rogers, Australia Own Man Since The 20th Century.

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England Team-Mate Ian Bell Against Australia In The First Ashes Test

Kevin Pietersen Hails Friday's Innings From England Team-Mate Ian Bell Against Australia In The First Ashes Test

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Kevin Pietersen Hails Friday's Innings From England Team-Mate Ian Bell Against Australia In The First Ashes Test

Kevin Pietersen Paid Tribute To Ian Bell On Friday Saying His Performance Proved His Critics Wrong.

Bell Has Been Accused In The Past Of Failing To See Through A Difficult Job At The Crease But He Remained Unbeaten Overnight Five Runs Short Of Only His Second Ashes Century In His 19th Test Against Australia.
“It Was Absolutely Brilliant. We Know How Good Belly Is,” Said Pietersen. “He Is Backed Incredibly Well In Our Dressing Room. He Has Proven Why We Think He Is A Fantastic Player. He Has Come Out There And Played A Very Mature Innings On Quite A Tough Wicket.
"Michael Clarke Set Some Very Good Fields Today. Their Bowlers Also Bowled Really Well. We Had To Play With A Lot Of Discipline. It Was Important For Chef [Alastair Cook] And I To Set A Foundation To For Our Players To Go Out And Play Today.”
In What Was An At Times Frosty Press Conference Pietersen Was Only Happy Expanding On His Answers Talking About The Match.
“I Think They All Bowled In Very Good Areas,” He Said. “Siddle Runs In All Day. It Is Like He Has Duracell Batteries In Him. He Is A Fantastic Cricketer For Australia. He Is A Typical Diehard, Serve-Your-Country Bowler. They All Bowled With Discipline And Good Areas. I Would Be Foolish To Say We Have Got Enough.

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India Beat Pakistan By 8 Wickets In Champions Trophy 2013

Birmingham:

World Cup Holders India Continued Their Formidable Champions Trophy Form With A Rain-Marred Eight Wicket Demolition Of Arch Rivals Pakistan On Saturday..!!

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